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My personal approval of TikTok ban efforts is based on a more nuanced view: yes TikTok is not currently nefarious, but in the event of conflict with China, it w
by e63f67dd-065b 4y ago
My personal approval of TikTok ban efforts is based on a more nuanced view: yes TikTok is not currently nefarious, but in the event of conflict with China, it will almost certainly be an outlet of CCP propoganda beamed straight into the US, and that is exactly when banning it would be the most politically contentious. Better to ban it now and not when the CCP uses it to influence domestic politics, at which point the optics of banning TikTok will come with the optics of banning political speech.